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Publilius Syrus Quotes


Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.